Chapter 1 Employee Handbook

Li Chunfeng sat in the villa's first-floor hall, blankly staring at the employee handbook in his hand. To call it a handbook was generous; it was just a printed sheet of paper.

At the top it read: *W亡者归莱 Lingjing Xingzhe* Technical Department Employee Handbook.

It listed thirty rules, but they were all ridiculous. For example, rule number one: Xiahou Aotian is the leader of the technical department, and the only leader.

Another example, rule number two: Please remember that Xiahou Aotian is the most intelligent scholar of all time. Pay him the highest respect. Greet him respectfully upon meeting him!

And rule number six: In the technical department, please remember that everything Xiahou Aotian says is correct. If you have any objections, you are definitely wrong.

Some words have been replaced by homophones, please understand.

Or rule nineteen: Xiahou Aotian cares very much for his subordinates. Every Saturday he will hold lectures to impart the mysteries of the scholar profession and his vast, ocean-like knowledge. Therefore, every Saturday from now on, call him: Principal!

What did this all mean? Was this new technical director trying to build a cult of personality?

It was less of an employee handbook and more of a brainwashing regimen.

I came here to work, not to sell myself… Li Chunfeng almost suspected he had walked into a pyramid scheme.

"Judging by your expression, you don't seem too satisfied with our technical department's rules and regulations." Xiahou Aotian sat upright, his voice deep.

Now he was a leader, commanding the gang's most important department, a large company with a future market value of several hundred billion. He had to maintain a leader's dignity and bearing.

Li Chunfeng thought, what is this garbage? Of course I'm not satisfied. I'm not taking this job.

Just as he was about to reject the offer, his phone "dinged."

He picked up his phone and saw a message from Yuanshi Tianzun. The content was: "That guy's brain isn't too bright. Ignore him in the future. Just do your job well. Elder Fu said he'll assign you a car and a driver."

Li Chunfeng stared at the text message for a few seconds, then silently showed the message to Xiahou Aotian and said, "Yuanshi Tianzun sent it to me. According to employee handbook rule number two, I must maintain the highest respect for Leader Xiahou. Yuanshi Tianzun's slander of the leader is something I cannot condone."

Xiahou Aotian stood up in awe and extended his hand. "Good comrade."

Li Chunfeng: "Good leader!"

Xiahou Aotian happily led Li Chunfeng on a tour of the workplace. The walls of the first-floor hall had been removed, leaving only the load-bearing columns, and adding a cooling pool, laboratory, CNC machine tools, 3D printers, and other equipment.

This was all basic equipment.

It wasn't necessary for making props, but modern industrial equipment was definitely a powerful tool for creating mechanical weapons.

The second floor was a tool room, with the most complete tools. If you had enough materials, you could even build a sports car here.

But Li Chunfeng was not interested in these things. No matter how good the equipment was, it was just a product of modern industry.

"Leader, Elder Fu asked me to make mechanical weapons, but after walking around, the factory is full of ordinary things." Li Chunfeng frowned. "Where's the furnace? I didn't see the most important furnace."

Whether refining tools or making mechanical weapons, both required two core things.

First, blueprints, and second, a furnace. …He didn't need to worry about the blueprints, but he didn't see the furnace. This was a "factory," but there was no furnace.

"I've been waiting for you to say that." Xiahou Aotian snapped his fingers like Yuanshi Tianzun. "Follow me!"

He led Li Chunfeng back to the first floor and stopped at an octagonal groove beside the cooling pool. In front of the young scholar, he took out a half-furnace body engraved with a beast that resembled a sheep's head.

"Check out its attributes!" Xiahou Aotian raised his chin proudly.

He was looking forward to the little scholar being excited and excited after reading the furnace's attributes, and then admiring him, the leader, even more.

Li Chunfeng curiously reached out and touched the furnace. After a few seconds, he showed a look of surprise. "Good stuff!"

"Good stuff?" Xiahou Aotian showed a surprised expression and stared at Li Chunfeng. "That's it?"

It's a Dominator-grade item!

Shouldn't you kneel to it? Does it deserve its rank?

What else? Li Chunfeng thought for a while and said, "Oh, speaking of which, the attributes of this furnace are very similar to a Rule item I've seen. That item is called the Hundred Refinement Furnace."

After he finished speaking, he saw Xiahou Aotian suddenly cover his chest, his other hand propped on the top of the furnace, his handsome face twitching violently, as if he was having a heart attack.

"What's wrong, Leader?" Li Chunfeng was shocked.

Xiahou Aotian gritted his teeth. "It's nothing, just a sudden angina."

The next day, morning.

Fu Qingyang summoned his confidant subordinate to the study and got straight to the point: "I've already sent emails to headquarters and the Zhunhai branch, saying that you lost the Yin-Yang Disc. Prepare yourself. It won't be long before headquarters sends someone to inquire about the situation."

Zhang Yuanqing perked up and pondered, "What attitude does Boss want me to have?"

Fu Qingyang glanced at him and sneered: "Want you to be gentle, courteous, thrifty, and yielding? Want you to listen obediently? Want you to break your rebellious bone? Want you to think twice before confronting the Ten Elders at headquarters? Can you do it?"

Zhang Yuanqing was a little embarrassed.

Fu Qingyang snorted coldly: "Just do whatever you want."

Boss, your tone is like parents who hate that their child doesn't live up to their expectations… Zhang Yuanqing said "Oh" and then sat down in the reception area.

Enjoying the black truffle cake, ham slices, ice cream and other snacks on the glass coffee table.

These things are standard in the reception area. Even if there are no guests, even if Young Master Qian doesn't eat them, the bunny girls will update them every day.

Young Master Qian is not afraid of waste; Young Master Qian needs face.

About two hours later, the door of the study was kicked open with a "bang." A middle-aged man with graying temples broke in.

This middle-aged man was wearing a black suit, with a square face, a beard, and the corners of his mouth turned down slightly. The frown lines between his eyebrows and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were deep, and his temperament was tough and serious. He looked like a stern, unselfish police detective from a manga.

It was Elder of the Huaihai branch, Lingjing ID "Detective," former captain of the Huaihai Public Security Bureau.